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Axis Interdisciplinary Research in History and Philosophy of Science

History of Science, History of Text 2013–2014

Organisers : Karine Chemla with Agathe Keller, Christine Proust, and all HSHT group of the project SAW

The seminar ’History of Science, History of Text’ will mainly explore textual problems related to the ERC Project SAW — "Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World".

The seminar will address the following issues regarding scientific sources :

How textual sources bear witness to the social groups that produced them
How textual sources testify to knowledge
History of compilations
How actors structure their texts and knowledge into parts
How textual sources reflect the material environment in which they were produced

To current year and archives 1996-

PROGRAM 2013 – 2014

On Thursdays, from 9:30 am till 5:30pm, Room Malevitch, 483A ; from March on, Room Mondrian, 646A. Condorcet Building of the Paris Diderot University – Campus map with access.

Download the program. Abstracts.

Thursday 21 Nov., Room Malevitch, 483A
: : How written sources betray ways of working

Rich Kremer (Darmouth College)
Exploring the social worlds of the medieval Latin astronomical codex.

Isabelle Chamentier (Univ. of Exeter)
Carl Linnaeus’s Paper Slips.

Marta Hanson (John Hopkins Univ. and Templeton "Science and Religion in East Asia" Project hosted by Science Culture Research Center, Seoul National Univ.)
Understanding is Within One’s Grasp (liaoran zai wo 瞭然在握) : Hand Mnemonic and Chinese Arts of Memory.

23 Jan., Room Malevitch, 483A
: : Parts of Text

Enno Giele (Heidelberg Universitaet)
tba

Florence Bretelle-Establet & Stéphane Schmitt (ERC Project SAW & SPHERE, CNRS)
Preparing the completion of the book on parts of text.

Mark McClish (Birmingham-Southern College)
The Composition of the Arthaśāstra : On Kauṭilya’s Use of Sources and the Evolution of the Text.

20 Feb., Room Malevitch, 483A
: : Quotations, compilations, parts of texts

Julie Lefebvre (Université de Lorraine, CREM, EA3476)
A linguistic approach to parts of text : parts of text as marks of the metatextual activity of writers.

Florence Bretelle-Establet (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW)
A bibliographical review on the practice of citation approached from different standpoints and disciplines.

Rita Watson (ISAW-NYU)
Writing, Theory, and Conceptual Change.
tba

20 March, !! 9:30 – 18:00 !!, Room Mondrian, 646A
: : Parts of texts, Preparing the completion of the book on parts

Danielle Jacquart (EPHE)
Les miscellanées scientifiques dans les manuscrits médiévaux.

Florence Bretelle-Establet et Stéphane Schmitt, (ERC Project SAW & SPHERE, CNRS)
Preparing the completion of the book on parts of text.

Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Referencing and reckoning : The transformation of text into titles and tables in Sanskrit Sources.

Karin Preisendanz (University of Vienna)
On quotations, citations, etc. in Sanskrit science texts (provisional title).

8 – 10 May
Joint Workshop with the Hamburg Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
: : What can scientific manuscripts teach us about manuscripts ?

22 May, Room Mondrian, 646A, 9:30 – 18:00
: : Mathematical Commentaries

Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW)
Commentaries on mathematical texts. Results and new questions.

Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW)
Mathematical and textual practices in Sanskrit mathematical commentaries, 7th-10th century.

Michèle Decorps-Foulquier (CHSPAM–SPHERE, Univ. Clermont-Fd)
Un exemple de commentaire mathématique à la fin de l’Antiquité : le commentaire d’Eutocius d’Ascalon aux Coniques d’Apollonius de Perge.

Glenn Most (The University of Chicago and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
How to Edit Heraclitus.

12 June, Room Mondrian, 646A
: : Orality and the historian of science’s written sources. Discussing the issue in preparation.

9:30 – 10:50 Daniel Morgan (SAW project & SPHERE)
What Good’s a Text ? Textuality, Orality, and Mathematical Astronomy in Early Imperial China.

10:50 – 11:05 Pause

11:05 – 12:15 Antonio Garcia(University of Alicante)
Learning by writing. Chemistry student notebooks and lecture demonstrations in early 19th century France (en collaboration avec José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez University of Valencia.

12:15 – 13:00 Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW)
Le chapitre mathématique de l’Āryabhaṭīya (499) comme une compilation de règles orales.

14:15 Agathe Keller (CNRS, SPHERE & SAW)
Le chapitre mathématique de l’Āryabhaṭīya (499) comme une compilation de règles orales (suite).

14:40 Christine Proust (CNRS, SPHERE et projet ERC SAW)
Oralité et mémorisation : quelques exemples parmi les textes mathématiques d’époque paléo-babylonienne.